Paris

Once just a village that settled on the "Ile de la Cite" (City Island) on the confluence of the Seine's two branches, Paris has vastly expanded over the centuries, taking the surrounding villages under its wing and making them its own. Nowadays the City of Light—a name Paris earned during the age of the Enlightenment—is made up of several …

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Top Hotels

1. Riu Bellevue Park, Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia
2. The Waldorf=Astoria, New York City, United States
3. Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, United Kingdom
4. Brown's Hotel, London, United Kingdom
5. Burj Al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
6. Crowne Plaza Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
7. Silken Gran Hotel Havana, Barcelona, Spain
8. The Shelbourne Dublin, Renaissance Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
9. Macdonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford, United Kingdom
10. The Oberoi Mumbai, Mumbai, India

Top Restaurants

1. Jazz Cafe, London, United Kingdom
2. Akab Cave, Rome, Italy
3. Basilica Ristorante Taberna VLPIA, Rome, Italy
4. Grain Store (The), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
5. Tejados de Chachopo (Los), MéRIDA, Venezuela
6. Celnice, Prague, Czech Republic
7. Wilde's Wine Bar & Bistro, York, United Kingdom
8. Orient Express, New Delhi, India
9. Pizzeria Venezia, Prague, Czech Republic
10. Restaurant Střelecký Ostrov, Prague, Czech Republic

Top Attractions

1. National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2. Waterworld, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
3. Planet Ice, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4. Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, United Kingdom
5. Bamburgh Castle, Bamburgh, United Kingdom
6. Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, United Kingdom
7. Wet 'n' Wild, North Shields, United Kingdom
8. Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia (Catedral de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
9. Lyme Park, Stockport, United Kingdom
10. Regent's Park & Primrose Hill, London, United Kingdom